Let me just put this out there: I don’t like to be scared. The scariest movie I’ve ever seen is “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” When I’m watching YouTube videos and I can’t skip through an ad preview for a scary film, I scream, mute my computer, and cover my eyes. And I definitely don’t like haunted houses.

When I was in high school, my friends and I organized a (party) bus trip to the big citay to give Eastern State Penitentiary‘s (2027 Fairmount Avenue) Halloween, nighttime attraction, Terror Behind the Walls,a try. It’s been awhile now, but the things I remember include: signing a waiver that I couldn’t touch the zombies, deceased medical patients, etc., holding onto the hands of my group members for dear life, and just being overall terrified.

Philly, you are the best city of all the cities. In honor of your loveliness, I’ve teamed up with four other fab Philly lady bloggers to bring our readers the ultimate list of all the things you must do, see, eat, drink, and visit in our fair city. A Philly bucket list, if you will, filled with unique things to make you say “hmmm that sounds interesting,” and more obvious things to make you go, “duh! Why have I not done that yet?” Below you’ll get my contribution to the list, and when you’re done, click over to the rest of the list on each blog. Here goes!

Happy snow day, ladies! I hope you enjoyed my first Philadelphia giveaway yesterday (if you missed it, there’s still 6 days left to enter!). I’m continuing my week of birthday giveaways today with an amazing (and slightly spooky!) second prize.

I had always known Eastern State Penitentiary as the old prison they had Halloween haunted houses at. It wasn’t until I visited earlier this fall that I realized just how interesting Eastern State was, and how lucky we are to have it in our city. On top of the awesome history and plenty things to learn, the Penitentiary is a perfectly affordable activity to take your out of town friends & family to. But do you know what’s better than affordable? Free. And that’s why I am so excited that Eastern State is giving you a chance to win four passes to explore the Penitentiary yourself! Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter:

This giveaway will run for one week and I will announce the winner back here on the blog. To help you keep track of all of the awesome prizes I’ll be hooking you up with this week, I’ll be including each link in the bottom of the posts. So hop around, send in some entries, and good luck!

Sometimes, when you’ve lived somewhere for a long time, you forget to take advantage of the things tourists do every day. In my quest to explore more Philly neighborhoods (and because of my current obsession with La Calaca Feliz), I recently bopped up to Fairmount to spend the day with my parents. After an obviously delicious brunch, we decided to venture down the block to that big, stone fortress looking building – oh yeah, a prison.

Eastern State Penitentiary (2027 Fairmount Avenue), opened from 1829 to 1971 (can you believe that?), is pretty much an amazing piece of history sitting right in the middle of our pretty city. My parents & I visited on a Sunday around 2:00 pm and walked right in to get our tickets. We picked up a set of headphones and made out way outside to start “The Voices of Eastern State” Audio Tour, narrated by Steve Buscemi, naturally.